On 8 February 2019, the Day of Russian Science, the Forum of the General Staff building was the venue for the demonstration of the operation of the First North-Western Installation of the Megascience Class “Quantologoi” or “Scientists Joking”.

On 23 and 24 January 2019, the State Hermitage held the latest Readings dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Grigoryevich Lukonin (1932–1984), an outstanding Russian specialist on the culture and art of ancient and mediaeval Iran and head of the Hermitage’s Department of the East for more than a quar

As the 75th anniversary of the complete lifting of the Siege of Leningrad approaches, a delegation from the staff of the State Hermitage headed by the museum’s General Director Mikhail Piotrovsky, his deputies Svetlana Adaksina, Georgy Vilinbakhov and Alexander Prokhorenko and Major General Alexande

On 17 January 2019, in accordance with the plan for the restoration of the railings of the Alexander Column, the eagle that had previous been dismounted by the Hermitage’s specialist services was reinstalled.

On 18 January 2019, the State Hermitage’s Council Hall was the setting for a meeting with representatives of the Hermitage–Barcelona Foundation and discussion of the design for the building of the Hermitage-Barcelona Centre.

On 14 January 2019, Georgy Vadimovich Vilinbakhov, Deputy General Director of the State Hermitage, gave a briefing in the museum devoted to the double-headed eagle removed from the railings of the Alexander Column for restoration.

Due to the announcements appearing in social networks inviting students to come to the State Hermitage “to accompany tour groups” and the like, we state categorically that the persons circulating such information have no connection to the Hermitage.

On 29 December 2018, in keeping with tradition as the New Year approaches, the State Hermitage presented to the public the most interesting gifts that the museum has received in the past year: a Russian imperial field marshal’s baton and a firman of Ottoman Sultan Selim III. The gifts went on show i

On 22 December 2018, the General Staff building became the venue of the traditional New Year fancy-dress party for students and participants of the State Hermitage Youth Centre’s programmes. The choicer of theme was influenced by two Italian exhibitions that have recently opened in the museum: “Abst

The catalogue of the exhibition “Futuruins: The Future of Ruins and Ruins of the Future” that opened in Venice on 17 December 2018 has been published (editor Daniela Ferretti, publisher Grafiche Veneziane, 2018, 255 pp.).

On 17–19 December 2018, the State Hermitage hosted a conference on “Current Researches in the Sphere of Decorative and Applied Art, Architecture and Ethnography” dedicated to the memory of Tamara Alexeyevna Malinina (1948–2010).